Counter-display folding box



Man'. 20, i923. 11,448,743

, F. J. GRDY COUNTER DISPLAY FOLDING BOX F11ed Aug. 31, 1921 Pawnee Mai. ao, reza.

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FRANCIS JOSEPH GRADY, F NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO NATIONAL FOLDING BOX COMPANY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

COUNTER-DISPLAY FOLDING BOX.

Application led August 31, 1921. Serial No. 497,127.

To all whom t may cof/wem.'

Be it known that l[, FRANCIS JOSEPH GRADY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New Haven, New Haven County,

ti in the State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Counter- Display Folding Boxes, of which the followin is a specification.

y invention relates to that class of fold- M ing, usually paper, boxes, or containers,

which are supplied with means for supporting them, as upon a'merchants counter, in inclined positions facilitating display of their contents to customers, and it relates M more particularly to the said means usually designated in the trade as the easel braces or flaps of. such boxes.

The objects of my invention comprise the production of such braces of a novel form E@ and operation and of a more economically and readily constructed, stronger, simpler, andreadily set-up and knocked-down type than heretofore.

T attain these, and other useful, objects by constructing and locking the easel braces as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings which are designed to illustratively disclose an example thereof embodying my universally applicable novel principles of construction, the said example or specimen showing my said easel braces as applied to one of the numerous other types of well-known counter-display folding paper boxes in connection with which they are employable, and which, including their accessories and appurtenances, including their easel braces, are preferably unitary, that is tot' say constructed, or cut and suitably creased, or otherwise locally weakened, for folding, out of a single sheet of paper, straw. board, or other analogously treatable and serviceable material.

Referring now to the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view of the unitary cutout and creased blank of a counter display folding paper box equipped with my novel easel braces;

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the blank of Figure 1 when set up and its lid opened for display of contents, illustrating the rear, one side, and part of the top thereof;

Figure 3 is a like view showing more of the bottom and of my easel braces, the lid being partly broken away and the box being rested upon its front side the better to show the braces;

Figure 4 is, on enlarged scale, a medial cross-section of the box taken on the line 44 of Figure 2. y

Similar reference letters, or numerals, refer to similar parts throughout the several figures. The blank shown in Figure 1 illustrates, 1n part, a well-known type of counter display folding box, novel only as regards its embodiment of my therewith combined and mtegrally incorporated easel braces. The blank is cut from the sheet of paper, or other analogous suitable material, and creased or scored, by any of the present approved means and methods. The rectangular port1on B serves as the bottom of the box; the parts S S as the sides; the parts E E as the front and rear ends respectively; the part T. as the top in which is an opening T for display therethrough of the contents; the part C as the cover or lid. The rear side of the top carries a projection or iap T bendable on the creased line 5. Similar creased lines 6, 7, 8, 9, are made respectively between the parts T, E, B, E, and C. These parts are bent, or folded, relatively to each other, upon said creased lines and the flap T is secured to the rear end part E in any convenient manner as by pasting or staples, etc. It follows, as usual, that the thus referred to and combined partsl can be knockeddown flat or set up into a rectangular position relatively to each other as will be understood by those skilled in the art. The ends E E carry respectively flaps 10, 11, inwardly bendable on creased lines 11, 10. The sides S carry flaps 12, also inwardly bendable on creased lines 12', and said sides arebendable relatively to the top T on creased lines 13, After the parts T, E, B, and E have been combined and set up as above described, the flaps 11, 10, are inwardly bent, the flaps 12 are likewise bent and inserted underneath the edges of the Haps 411 and 10, and thereby the parts S S are brought into place to serve as the sides of the box, and they,vas well as the other parts referred to, are thus, as it were, locked together so as to perform the functions required of a box, i. e., of the blank in its set up state. Incidentally the cover C carries aps 14, having tongues 14', and creased lines 14 are made between the cover and said flaps. Openings 15, adapted to receive the tongues 14', are made in the creased lines 13. lVhen the tongues are inserted into the openings 15, the flaps 14 serve to hold the cover C upraised so as tov constantly display the contents of the box through the opening T.

My invention relates particularly to the provision of means whereby such, or other, boxes are supportable, on a` merchants counter, in an inclined, or display, position. To that end, I provide the bottom B' bevellel, or inclined, free edge 16.

The bottom B of the box is provided with thereby carried outward projections, or'clips, P, disposed so as to overlap and retain the said free edges 16 of the easel braces when the latter have been bent asaforesaid (see Figures 1, 3 and 4). It will be ',oted that the lines 18 on which the braces are bent extend radially from one of two mutually opposite corners, c, c, of the bottom of the box (see Figures 1 and It follows that the braces, being thus bent on lines diagonal to the bottom, present bearings, or easels, which are higher at the rear than at the forward end of the box, thereby serving to incline the latter into f the desired display position, and also that the braces, being thus iirst outwardly, and then inwardly, bent, their free edges are readily engagable with the projections P, which, in the instance illustrated in the drawings, are outwardlyprojectable tongues cut integral with the bottom and so' shaped and disposed as to overlap edges of the braces and hold them firmly stationary intheir bent or easel position. The tongues P in the example illustrated in the drawings have their free ends, or apices. projecting directly toward the there-to adjacent sides or edges of the bottom. The tongues are to an important degree resilient towards the bottom from which they have been outwardly bent to receive the insertion there` under of the free edgesy of the braces and the construction is such that the tongues firmly clasp the edges of the braces with a spring-like grip, while the bases of the tongues form a stop, or abutment, limiting positively the inward movement, or collapse,

of the braces after being bent and inserted thereunder as above described.

The braces are also further inwardly bent upon the lines 19, which, like. the above described lines 18, also extend radially from the above referred to corners c, c of the bottom and are likewise diagonal to the sides of the bottom though at a different angle from the lines 18. This additional vbending not only improves the appearance of my easel braces and of the box in the set-up position, but also contributes to the stability of the engagement, or wedging interlock, of the free edges 16 of the braces with the tongues P.

It will be noted that as shown by the drawings (Figure 1), the outer or free edges of my easel bracesareinclined, or bevelled, relatively to the thereto proximate sides of the bottom which is important in order that the thus bevelled free edge 16 (Figure l) may, after the braces have been bent into their easel position, abut more directly or squarely against the bases of the tongues P; and as regards the free edge 16 in order that this may be in becoming parallelism with the plane of the end of the box which is directly above it when in the display position.

To facilitate, after the box has been filled, the outward bending to required outward projection of the tongues P which'make openings vin the bottom corresponding with the cut-outs of the tongues there are also cutcompletely out of the bottom relatively smaller openings` or iinger holes, O, which communicate with the iirstmentioned openings adjacent to the apices P of the tongues,

and into which a finger can be readily in-A serted to pry up the tongues into their operativev positions. j

In the drawings the single solid lines indicate cutout, or free, edges of the bank, and triple, fainter, mutually parallel lines the creased, or otherwise weakened, and consequently relatively more bendable portions of the constituent material, which are the bend lines.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by LettersPatent is the. following, viz:

1. A collapsible. counter-display, paper box comprising a bottom having therefrom outward projections and sides having lateral extensions each containing a plurality of fold lines on one of which a part of the extension is bendable into prismatic form to serve as an easel brace and on another of which lines the extension is also bendable to bring another part thereof into parallelism with said bottom to serve as a wedge between said prismatic shaped part and/one of said projections.

k2. In a collapsible, counter-display, paper box comprising a bottom having a therefrom projecting prismatic easel brace, and also a clip, an extension from said brace foldable angularly thereto into parallelism with said bottom and into engagement with said clip.

3. In a collapsible, counter-display, paper box comprising a bottom having a therefrom projecting prismatic easel brace, and also a clip, an extension from said brace having an extended diagonal free edge and foldable angularly to said brace into parallelism with said bottom with its said edge in engagement with said clip.

4. A boxmade of a blank of sheet material having a bottom provided With therefrom outwardly extending projections and formed with lateral extensions each having a plurality of diagonally to each other eX- tending fold lines, parts of said extensions being adapted to be. folded on one of said lines, 18', angularly to, and another part on anotherof said lines, 19, into--parallelism With, said bottom, the angularly folded parts providing inclined feet to support the box 0n a slant and the part folded in parallelism providing a Wedge having an extended straight operative edge widely abutable against one of said projections whereby the angularly folded portions are firmly held in their inclined positions Without entering the box.

FRANCIS JOSEPH GRADY. 

